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ObamaCare's New Theory of Employment

The amazing defense of job losses caused by the Affordable Care Act.

Feb. 5, 2014 7:09 p.m. ET

The Congressional Budget Office report estimating that ObamaCare will cause the economy to lose the equivalent of 2.5 million workers is remarkable on its own. But the reaction from the left—giddy celebration—is another order of magnitude.

U.S. politics used to have enough of a center that politicians could agree that fewer Americans working and others working less as a result of qualifying for a new taxpayer-funded benefit wasn't...